Sometimes you have prepared open-ended straight with only one hole cards. For example, you pocket A ♣ T ♠ with a flop 9 ♦ 8 ♥ 7 ♠ J ♦, or 9 ♥ 8 ♠. The first thing to understand - is the fact that such straight draw is not as strong as the open straights using both pocket cards: • Your hand may have beaten Straight, drew up a flop. • If your Street will be formed, there remains the likelihood that you will have to share the pot with an opponent who has the same card as you do. • When you have be formed Street, the auction will not be sufficiently active, since opponents of the board will look too threatening. For example, when you have a pocket of A-T at 9-8-7 flop and the turn was a jack or 6, the activity of trading dries quickly. If you use both hole cards, your hand is less obvious for the opponents, so sometimes you can declare a raise or even re-raise and get a lot of Betov from opponents in response.
Now consider the flop with three cards of one suit and discuss possible hands. As an example, take the flop 9-8-7. Obviously, the best hand with this flop will pocket JT, with which we have compiled the best Street, followed by the T-6 and 6-5. Next in force after the straights are sets with pocket 9-9, 8-8 and 7-7. Two pairs can also be a good hand, though, and very vulnerable. For all of these hands should be T-T, with which constitutes a good open-ended straight with overparoy. In addition, when we have two scores, less likely drawing on the flop straight from someone of his opponents, but also decreases the chance that we will have to divide the pot. Another strong hand will be JJ, because it gives us overparu with "holes" Straight. These overpar have a few extra outs, if someone from the opponents suddenly be two pairs. Finally, another good hand will be The top pair with an open street - in this example is T-9. In general, all these hands are strong enough, and usually they can play aggressively, unless such a strategy does not contradict the behavior of opponents.
When you are trying to make a draw with only one pocket card, and you have no other options, your hand is much weaker. In appropriate circumstances, you can play and hand-type T-4, but remember that your timeouts may be impaired by one of the opponents, and that you may have to divide the pot. But when the flop comes two cards of one suit, usually should fold.
If you decide to make a draw with one hole card with suited flop, you almost always need to strive to build a Street in the upper side. For example, Pocket A-6 with 9-8-7 flop - this is not a very strong hand. Ten, you will be formed straight, but if someone from the opponents have a jack - then it will be over the Street. The only time you should play this hand - playing one-on-one under suitable conditions, or situation, when a sufficiently large pot you play a draw like "leaking" straight from the five.
With three connectors with a "window" you also have a straight draw. For example, you pocket A-8 or 8-5 when the flop of T-9-7. In general, the strategy for such cards do not differ from the strategies in the game when suited flop. The main difference is that now, at least one of your cards is not an overcard. When the flop 9-8-7, there are cases when, Pocket A-T, there are dozens - and as a result you have drawn up steam, which turns out to be strong enough so that you can win the pot. When handheld 8-5 and the flop of T-9-7 a probability of no, hence, such a draw is a bit less valuable. And this strategy are very similar to those which we described, referring to the suited flop. The flop of this type of beneficial play quite a strong hand - a K-8 or T-8. When the flop with a flush risk with straight draw is always higher.
When suited flop you should almost always lose your draw, unless granted a good time to semi-bluff against a single opponent, or when your hands are additional elements, eg top pair. When the flop comes two cards of one suit, with a straight draw this type have many problems. When playing against a few opponents usually necessary to announce fold. In this situation, you will have only six outs, in addition, it is likely that your hand will lose on the river. When playing against one or two opponents, you can try to play such a hand - depending on your assumptions about the adversary's cards, the expectation for a sweat, as well as on the availability of your hands additional elements - such as couples or overcards.